FAH354H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wild Turkey, Paleontology, Dinos
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Charles willson peale, the artist in his museum, 1822. Spent most of his time working on his museum which was initially started as a portrait gallery, but was soon supplemented by biological, archeological, and botanical specimens as well as human inventions: tools, machines. This image offer us a vision of how arts and natural objects related to one another in this period when the art museum is beginning to split off as a distinct museum. In a lot of ways the 2 remain intermingled. The foreground: items that are not surprising for a space dedicated to natural history. Stuffed specimen: wild turkey, box of tools open for us to see. He did not think that these 2 facets of work as being separate. Juxtaposition of the mark of authorship as a painter and another mark of peale"s authorship because what he did after he excavated bones was to try to recreate them.
